{"value"=>"<p>This series contains a most extensive collection of scrapbooks kept by Chamberlain and Lyman Brown from their childhood through their adulthood, mostly documenting a large array of 19th and 20th century performers, as well as other theater subjects. There are also several personal scrapbooks relating to Chamberlain Brown. A number of the scrapbooks contain programs for miscellaneous productions seen by the Brown brothers at theaters such as the Hartford Opera House, Parsons Theatre also in Hartford, Connecticut, and on trips to New York City. Several scrapbooks also cover miscellaneous actors and actresses. The <span class=\"title\">Theatre Record</span>scrapbooks (1903 – 1914) include two volumes of the playgoing diaries kept by Chamberlain and Lyman Brown, while several other volumes appear to have been purchased. (See also Related Materials – Chamberlain and Lyman Brown Theatrical Diaries.)</p> <p>Included in the scrapbooks are mostly clippings, but also programs, a number of photographs, and other ephemera for the performers. In some instances, there are multiple scrapbooks for the star, such as Edith Ellis, Violet Heming, Elsie Janis, Helen Menken, Tom Mix, Marjorie Rambeau, and Joseph Schildkraut to name but a few. Some of the most notable personalities include Maude Adams, Humphrey Bogart, Mrs. Leslie Carter, Clark Gable, Helen Hayes, Edward Everett Horton, Bert Lahr, Fredric March, Carlotta Monterey, Antoinette Perry, William Powell, Fritzi Scheff, Clifton Webb, and Peggy Wood.</p> <p>The Chamberlain Brown scrapbooks provide some of the only information in the collection on his early career. His summer productions of <span class=\"title\">The Social Stew</span> (1909) and <span class=\"title\">The Chorus Boy</span> (1910) in Annisquam, Massachusetts are well-documented in the scrapbooks. The two Westchester Theatre scrapbooks document the 1931-1932 productions there by the Chamberlain Brown Players.</p>"}